Ex-NSA Worker Pleads Guilty to Selling US Secrets to Russia

A former National Security Agency (NSA) employee, Jareh Sebastian Dalke, pleaded guilty to attempting to sell classified national security information to Russia. Dalke, an Army veteran from Colorado, faces up to a possible life sentence but could receive a lighter punishment under the terms of a plea deal. He admitted to giving excerpts of documents to an undercover FBI agent, whom he believed was a Russian agent, and offered to sell the rest of the information for $85,000. The information included a threat assessment of a third country's military offensive capabilities and sensitive U.S. defense capabilities. Dalke, who cited financial difficulties and a desire to "cause change," will be sentenced in April.